Manual Alarm Control Panel

This platform enables you to set manual alarms in Home Assistant.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: manual

Configuration variables:

• name (Optional): The name of the alarm. Default is “HA Alarm”.
• code (Optional): If defined, specifies a code to enable or disable the alarm in the frontend.
• pending_time (Optional): The time in seconds of the pending time before arming the alarm. Default is 60 seconds.
• trigger_time (Optional): The time in seconds of the trigger time in which the alarm is firing. Default is 120 seconds.
• disarm_after_trigger (Optional): If true, the alarm will automatically disarm after it has been triggered instead of returning to the previous state.

• **armed_home

  armed_away

  armed_night

  triggered** (Optional): State specific settings

  • pending_time: State specific pending time override.

In the config example below, armed_home state will have no pending time and triggered state will have pending time of 20 second whereas armed_away state will have a default pending time of 30 seconds.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
alarm_control_panel:
  - platform: manual
    name: Home Alarm
    code: 1234
    pending_time: 30
    armed_home:
      pending_time: 0
    triggered:
      pending_time: 20
    trigger_time: 4 

Examples

In this section, you find some real-life examples of how to use this panel.

Sensors

Using sensors to trigger the alarm.

automation:
- alias: 'Trigger alarm while armed away'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.pir1
      to: 'active'
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.pir2
      to: 'active'
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.door
      to: 'open'
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.window
      to: 'open'
  condition:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm
      state: armed_away
  action:
    service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_trigger
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.ha_alarm